featural

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featural (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to features.
- 2008 January 8, John E. Sarnecki, “Sortals for Dummies”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
  As Xu and Carey have shown, while children may be aware of property or featural distinctions between objects, they do not use them to distinguish unique individuals (Xu and Carey 1996).
(linguistics) A writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to.
- 2015, Robert Koehler et al., Hangeul: Korea's Unique Alphabet, Seoul Selection:
  As a featural alphabet, Hangeul bears some similarities with scientifically created writing systems invented centuries later, such as the Visible Speech system invented by Alexander Melville Bell.
- 1997, Young-Key Kim-Renaud, The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure, University of Hawai'i Press, page 184:
  Because of its systematic categorization of sounds, with corresponding graphic interpretation, some linguists have come to consider han'gŭl a "featural" system.
- 1995, Roy Harris, Signs of Writing, Psychology Press, page 58:
  The same author also cites Pitman's shorthand as an example of a ‘featural’ writing system .